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Belco’s owl is gone!

The giant owl sculpture in Belconnenthat has been the source of so much debate is gone. Just the concrete base remains…

Here’s how the mystery unfolded on Twitter on Friday night, to a deal of amusement, courtesy of Canberra Times cartoonist David Pope’s feed (I tidied up RTs and rearranged to make sense to non-tweeps), and with an interesting reveal at the end:

@cutflat: Alright, who stole the owl sculpture from Belconnen!?

@davpope: IS THIS TRUE, BELCONNEN?

@davpope: PLEASE BE GONE

@cutflat: If not stolen, at least missing or moved. Didn’t get a good look because I was driving past.

@davpope: STILL WAITING, BELCONNEN

@ludicrause: @davpope earthquake!

@davpope: ALRIGHT, WHO SAID THAT? WAS THAT YOU SCULLIN? SIT UP STRAIGHT WHEN I’M TALKING TO YOU

wtf … take the whole damn thing away to paint it? This is cheaper than throwing up some scaffolding around it? (Happy to assume that minimum cost is the *only* variable taken into consideration).

Remind me not to get these clowns to paint my house.

Paint won’t cure below about 15 degrees, and they have to strip it first meaning the need for some rather elaborate containment and vacuum systems if the works were to be done in situ.

It’s a remarkably over the top exercise and the artist should be ashamed they didn’t think of the technical side of the piece originally, but there’s no other way to do it and we’re not paying anyway… well, not paying again at least.